Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Novelist-Anthropologist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge wrote his autobiography at 43, he had some sharp words to say. about U.S. private prep schools, and Groton in particular. Such places, said he, are "grindingly conformist." Last week, in the Atlantic Monthly, La Farge, now 52, announced a change of heart...
...anyone can, it is Swedish Anthropologist Carl-Hermann HjortsjÖ. At Sweden's Lund University last week, he was getting ready to publish a paper that explained how he had used his anthropological know-how to make himself a relic detective. He began by identifying several sets of doubtful remains by correlating tradition with such data as ossification of skullcap seams, length of limb and condition of teeth. Then for Swedish saints Anthropologist HjortsjÖ used a new technique. Knowing that medieval Swedes...
...ANTHROPOLOGIST HjortsjÖ White are the bones of saints...
...Peabody's expeditions, made possible by a grant from the George Grant McCurdy Fund, Hailam L. Movius Jr., associate professor of anthropology, spent last summer excavating one of the most important archaeological sites in Europe--the Les Eyzies Paleolithic deposits in southwestern France. Even in civilized France, however, the anthropologist meets his vicissitudes. The site hardy family of Freshfarmers, and "It's the richest site I've ever seen," says Movius wistfully; "Someday I hope the Peabody Museum will...
...continents except Australia. Some of these projects will undoubtedly be highly organized expeditions with full staffs, others the intensive researches of single scholars. But all will be helping to push forward the frontiers of anthropological knowledge. To this goal of a better Understanding of man and his ways, the anthropologist is dedicated, whether he works with pen or pick-axe.The Mount Carmel Skull...